Best-selling Books
Contemporary: WEEK OF May 6, 2012
| THIS WEEK |
LAST WEEK | BOOK TITLE |
WEEKS ON LIST |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Life on Mars (Graywolf Press ) | 37 |
| 2 | 2 | Horoscopes for the Dead: Poems (Random House) | 7 |
| 3 | 4 | Swan: Poems and Prose Poems (Random House) | 7 |
| 4 | 3 | The Complete Poems (Macmillan) | 4 |
| 5 | 9 | New Collected Poems (Counterpoint) | 11 |
| 6 | – | Ins and Outs of Forests and Rivers (New Directions) | 1 |
| 7 | 11 | Collected Poems (Knopf) | 9 |
| 8 | 7 | The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton & Co.) | 26 |
| 9 | 10 | Head Off & Split (Triquarterly) | 38 |
| 10 | 12 | B (The Domino Project) | 4 |
| 11 | 8 | Place (Ecco) | 2 |
| 12 | 23 | The Best of It (paperback) (Grove Press) | 61 |
| 13 | – | The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor (Salmon Poetry) | 1 |
| 14 | 16 | Red Bird (paperback) (Beacon Press) | 161 |
| 15 | 14 | Thirst (paperback) (Beacon Press) | 242 |
| 16 | 27 | The Coral Sea (W. W. Norton & Company) | 16 |
| 16 | – | Selected Poems (Macmillan) | 5 |
| 17 | 22 | Evidence (paperback) (Beacon Press) | 85 |
| 18 | – | June Fourth Elegies (Graywolf Press) | 1 |
| 18 | – | Pity the Beautiful (Graywolf Press) | 1 |
| 19 | – | Snowflake / different streets (Wave Books) | 5 |
| 20 | 28 | Ballistics (paperback) (Random House) | 117 |
| 21 | – | New and Collected Poems: 1964-2007 (Da Capo Press) | 1 |
| 22 | 30 | Space, In Chains (Copper Canyon Press) | 25 |
| 23 | 15 | The Pleasures of the Damned: Poems, 1951-1993 (paperback) (Ecco) | 171 |
| 24 | 13 | Every Riven Thing (paperback) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) | 13 |
| 25 | 19 | Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (HarperCollins Publishers) | 4 |
| 25 | 29 | Love, an Index (McSweeney's) | 8 |
| 26 | – | Leavings (paperback) (Counterpoint) | 55 |
| 27 | 11 | The Shadow of Sirius (paperback) (Copper Canyon Press) | 137 |
| 28 | 24 | Songs of Unreason (Copper Canyon Press) | 28 |
| 28 | – | After the Witch Hunt (Write Bloody Publishing) | 1 |
| 29 | – | Natural Selections (University of Iowa Press) | 1 |
| 30 | 30 | Almost Invisible (Knopf) | 9 |
| 30 | – | The Hartford Book (Cleveland State University Poetry Center) | 2 |
